Research lifecycle
The Libraries supports research at all stages of the research lifecycle. Click on each phase to learn more about these services.
1. Plan
Plan ahead to better manage your data and anticipate your project requirements.
Brainstorming
Find data, scholarship, collections, and supports to inspire your research
Databases and collections to inspire your research
Databases and repositories
- Find scholarly works in MSpace
- Find datasets in UM Dataverse
- Explore UM's licensed geospatial data
- Find databases suited to your discipline
- Search the Libraries catalogue for books, articles, and more
Historical data
Put new questions to old data by utilizing the Libraries' historical resources and digital exhibits.
Additional resources
Find support and opportunities at the Libraries and at UM.
Research data management
Decisions related to research data management should start from the first stage of the lifecycle, and continue on throughout the research process. A Data Management Plan (DMP) can help you get started.
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Guide: Write a Data Management Plan
Learn how to create a Data Management Plan to better articulate your long-term research goals.
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DMP Assistant
Create DMPs for Canadian funders using the University of Manitoba template in DMP Assistant
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DMP Tool
Create data management plans for US funders, such as NIH or NSF
Data governance, retention, and compliance
Find ways to fund your research, ensure it complies with ethical practices, regulatory guidelines, and remains accessible throughout your research.
Tools
Unsure where your data should live? Whether you're looking for storage solutions for active research, back-up, open data sharing, or preservation, making these decisions in the planning phase of your research can make your research process easier. The Research Data Storage Finder can help you find a solution that works best for your research.
Additional resources
The following resources will help you ensure your data is managed securely, and remains trustworthy and usable over time:
- Guide to self-preservation
- Information security and compliance policies, procedures and standards
- IST Research Services
- Data destruction
- Research Ethics and Compliance at UM
- Access and Privacy Office
- Privacy training for researchers
- Upcoming major funding opportunities and deadlines
- Research Support Fund
- Research policies and guidelines (see Guidelines for research funds)
- Tri-Agency Framework: Responsible conduct of research
- Fair dealing and other copyright exceptions
- UM copyright guidelines
2. Create
Put your plans into motion by creating or compiling high quality, well-managed research outputs.
Create/collect
Whether you're creating new data, or asking new questions of old data, the Libraries can help you create or compile your research
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Data viz guide
Learn how to visualize trends, choose tools, and get support when you need it
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GIS guide
Learn how to find, use, analyze geospatial data, and communicate your research through mapping
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GIS and data viz workshops
Find webinars and workshops offered by the Libraries
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Creating your data
Learn how to create good data and securely manage it.
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Data and statistics guide
Find data and statistics produced by Canadian governments and agencies.
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Reference and citation management
Learn more about citation management software.
Curate
Data curation involves actively managing your data throughout the research lifecycle to ensure that it is created, compiled and edited in a way that ensures your research remains understandable, usable, findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-usable throughout your project, and over the long-term.
Learn how to manage your data, keep it accessible, and usable, and extend its life for as long as possible by utilizing the Libraries' Guide to self-preservation.
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Curating your data
Find guidance on curating your data.
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Guide to self-preservation
Find guidance on how to future-proof your curated data.
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FAIR Principles
Ensure your data remains Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
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CARE Principles
Guiding principles for research data related to Indigenous Peoples.
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First Nations Principles of OCAP®
OCAP® principles of data ownership, control, access, and possession.
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Format-specific curation guides
Peer-reviewed, format-specific curation guides developed by the Data Curation Network
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CURATED checklist
Curation steps developed by the Data Curation Network.
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Dataverse curation guide
This guide provides instructions on curating data ahead of deposit in Dataverse.
3. Disseminate
Increase your research impact by sharing and depositing your work.
Deposit
Items eligible for deposit include scholarly works, research data, open access publications, and geospatial data. More information on each of these data types is available below:
UM deposit options
UM Deposit options include:
For more information on these repositories, consult the following resources:
Non-UM deposit options
There are many kinds of repositories: data and non-specific, national and international, multidisciplinary and discipline-specific. The following is a list of the primary and/or most commonly recognized repositories.
DIRECTORIES/REGISTRIES/LISTS
Canadian Institutional Repositories
A list maintained by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
View the Canadian Institutional Repositories
Directories of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org)
An easy identification of research data repositories, for both producers and users
View the Directories of Research Data Repositories
OpenDoar (Directory of Open Access Repositories)
A directory of academic open access repositories, validated by OpenDOAR staff
DATA
Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR)
Canadian national data deposit option for large datasets (5 GB or more). Data deposited in UM Dataverse is also harvested by this repository.
Federated Research Data Repository
DRYAD
A non-profit, international data repository supporting scientific and medical publications. Most data files are associated with peer-reviewed articles or dissertations.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY/ FORMAT-AGNOSTIC
Figshare
A product of Digital Science supporting all research outputs including videos, datasets; unlimited public storage and 1 GB of private storage free
Zenodo
A project supported by CERN, OpenAIRE, and Horizon 2020, it offers researchers, scientists, EU projects and institutions a space to share and showcase multidisciplinary research results (data and publications) that are not otherwise part of existing institutional or subject-based repositories.
DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC/ SUBJECT (Selected)
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
The University of Manitoba Libraries supports this consortium so UM faculty and students can create accounts, and both deposit and access data in this resource.
Not sure where to deposit?
Unsure where to deposit?
If you're considering depositing with UM, the Libraries' Research Data Storage Finder is the best place to start to explore your options.
Take-down policy
Any research deposited within a repository at the University of Manitoba Libraries is subject to a take-down policy.
Open access
Open access (OA) refers to freely available, online information. Open access scholarly literature (journal articles and books) is accessible to everyone, with no access fees.
Scholarly Communication
Scholarly communication is a broad term that encompasses many topics including publishing, authorship, research impact and academic profile management, among other topics.
Author rights and compliance
When you publish your work through a publisher, you enter into an agreement with that publisher. Consequently, it's important to understand and negotiate your rights as an author of an academic work.
Copyright and intellectual property
Ensure your research complies with copyright law ahead of disseminating your work.
4. Preserve
Ensure your data remains accessible and interoperable for as long as needed.
Digital preservation services
The Libraries offers digital preservation services for research data. When you deposit and publish your data, the formats you use, and the length of time your data is required to remain accessible will impact how your data is preserved.
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Guide to self-preservation
Learn how to extend the life of your research data so that it remains usable and accessible prior to applying formal preservation actions.
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Digital preservation practices
Learn about the Libraries' preservation and practices to better understand how digital preservation services can support your research needs.
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Research Data Storage Finder
Search for preservation storage options using the Libraries' Research Data Storage Finder.
Retention and disposition
At the end of your project, it's important to securely dispose of any research outputs that are not intended to be deposited and/or preserved, once its retention period has expired.
Deleting your data does not necessarily mean the information will remain inaccessible on your storage devices.
5. Re-use
Extend your work's impact by allowing yourself or others to build on your research.
Rights, permissions, licenses
Data re-use can take many different forms depending on the specific permissions, rights, licenses, and agreements tied to your data.
Data re-use in UM institutional repositories
MSpace
Generally, 4 types of access rights are allowed in MSpace: Open, Embargo, Restricted, or Metadata only.
UM Dataverse
Terms of use and licenses can be applied at the dataverse, dataset, or file level in UM Dataverse.
UM Dataverse’s default data usage license agreement for all deposited content is a Creative Commons Zero (“CC0”) Public Domain Dedication Waiver. Users may opt to draft a custom data usage license, but should discuss their options with the Libraries first.
Creative Commons licenses
Citations and persistent identifiers
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
A Digital Object Identifier, or DOI, is a unique, persistent address assigned to a digital object, such as a journal article. It provides an entry point into your research outputs.
DOIs facilitate re-use by ensuring that your research outputs can be easily located, even when the URL or website that hosts your work changes.
Assigning DOIs in UM institutional repositories
DOIs can be generated for items deposited within the UM's institutional repositories.
In MSpace, a DOI can be obtained on request.
In UM Dataverse, DOIs are automatically generated when a dataset is uploaded and saved to your project dataverse.
Find help throughout the lifecycle
Find resources and librarians to help you throughout your research.
